WWE Hall Of Famer Discusses His Experience Guest Coaching At WWE Performance Center

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A WWE Hall of Famer has discussed his experience guest coaching at the WWE Performance Center.

In October 2022, WWE Hall of Famer Booker T joined Vic Joseph on the commentary team of WWE NXT. The duo have called the action on the weekly broadcast and major events since then.

Outside of his work with WWE, Booker T also runs the Reality of Wrestling school and promotion with his wife Sharmell Huffman.

Speaking on the latest edition of The Hall of Fame podcast, Booker spoke with his co-host Brad Gilmore about his experience guest coaching at the WWE Performance Center. He said:

“I’m in Orlando right now. I stuck around here for a minute and got a little extra work in with some of the guys here down at the Performance Center.”

“It’s cool. This is my passion, being able to be a part of this business this many years later, and then to work with the young guys that’s gonna be the next generation, for me is so freaking awesome. I’m living my best life right now, I really am.”

“Never in a million years did I think I would still be in this business, but now being a part of NXT and now being a part of the next generation [of] superstars’ lives…”

“I don’t like patting myself on the back or anything like that, but it’s cool to have these young guys who have looked at me and looked up to me for so many years, and now they get a chance to work with me, and they see I’m kind of a really cool dude.”

“It’s really, really awesome. I’m down here, I’m spent yesterday and today working with a few of the guys here at NXT.”

When asked if that meant that he is guest coaching at the PC, Booker replied:

“Yeah. I mean, I call it private sessions.“

When asked to describe what he looks for when evaluating talent, the WWE Hall of Famer explained:

“Really at this stage, I don’t look for stuff like that. I’m more so in my coaching mode to where I’m trying to teach these guys psychology and trying to give them knowledge. More so, what I need is these guys to ask questions.”

“I need them to want to know what makes this work or why that doesn’t work today, opposed to it working back then, that kind of stuff, so we can really dive into the nuts and bolts of the artistry of what this thing is really, really all about, because that’s what I always loved about the wrestling business, is the artistry of it, the Shakespearean nature of it, the Romeo and Juliet side of it where it’s gonna be an encore, it’s gonna be a ‘bravo,’ it’s gonna be a curtain call at the end of the night.”

“For me, that’s what I’m thinking about as far as trying to bring my actors up to speed. Denzel Washington didn’t start by being the guy that you saw in Training Day.”

“He was just a guy that was just standing there, doing nothing, saying nothing, but he was studying, waiting and preparing. Preparation is the only luck, so that’s what we’re thinking about right now, prep. Prep work.” 

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